In light of the violent gun attack in the Greektown neighbourhood of their city the Toronto Film Festival’s CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced this year’s first films today with little fanfare.

Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.

Michael Moore wants the US to adopt some of the better ideas for governance he has found in Europe. Helen Barlow talks to him about his first happy movie

Room, from Irish director Lenny Abrahamson, already looks like one of the best films of 2016, writes Helen Barlow

Irish writer Emma Donoghue tells Helen Barlow how her hit film about incarceration was more inspired by her own experiences of motherhood than the Fritzl case

Irish movie Room is beginning to generate some Oscar buzz after scooping a major award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Kylie Jenner looked almost unrecognisable with blonde waves and black roots while sat front row at the Prabal Gurung show during New York Fashion Week. 

The animation industry is in rude health globally and especially in Ireland with Cartoon Saloon up for an Oscar next week. Ed Power asks some well known faces what cartoons they lived for as kids.

It’s rare to feature the same actress twice on our red carpet wrap, but it’s been a busy week for Keira Knightley. 

KATY PERRY has said she is looking for a different kind of boyfriend as she heads into her 30s.

Reese Witherspoon turned out at the red carpet for the Toronto Film Festival in Dolce & Gabbana. 

Robert Downey Jr says there are no plans for a fourth 'Iron Man' movie.

Bill Murray’s infamous high-jinks, aversion to corniness and the fact that he never sold his soul help explain why he is one of the truly beloved actors working in Hollywood today, writes Ed Power.

ABOUT 830,000 newborn babies would be saved every year if they had just one hour at their mother’s breast before being separated from her. That’s why Save the Children call breastmilk a "super-food". It is nature’s miracle-worker, writes Victorial White.

Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong'o are reportedly dating.

Men At Lunch, the documentary inspired by the iconic photograph taken during the construction of New York’s Rockefeller Center, received its cinematic release in New York yesterday, 81 years to the day since 11 steelworkers nonchalantly posed on a beam dizzyingly high above Manhattan.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been meeting up in secret.

Kristen Stewart claims she and ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson are "fine".

Renee Zellweger is set to make her directorial debut with '4½ minutes'.

Actress Kristen Stewart has made her first public appearance in nearly two months at the Toronto Film Festival.

Kristen Stewart has turned to Robert Pattinson’s best friend for help in order to win him back.

Kristen Stewart is reportedly refusing to talk about Robert Pattinson.

IF SOMEONE said Hirwaun was a sleepy village in a southeast Asian country, you might believe it.

BY the time I had cast my vote for next month’s Golden Globes last weekend, I felt like I had been in the trenches and through the wringer.

U2 frontman Bono believes the chart-topping band will stick together until they die.

The Toronto Film Festival will open this year with a documentary about U2.

Danny Boyle may return to the '28 Days Later' franchise to direct the third film.

Danny Boyle's new movie is apparently so shocking that three people fainted during a screening.

Irish actor Colin Farrell is celebrating after his girlfriend gave birth to a baby boy.

Colin Farrell’s girlfriend is putting pressure on him to propose.

IRELAND’S Hollywood elite are set to be out in force on the red carpet this week as seven homegrown movies debut at a film festival which has become the biggest indicator of Oscar glory.

Six movies and a raft of top Irish stars will highlight the best in homegrown talent at one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, it was revealed today.

Paris Hilton has jetted into France to promote her documentary at the Cannes International Film Festival - three years after she tried to ban 'Paris, not France' from hitting screens.

Jennifer Aniston is getting over her split from John Mayer - by reportedly romancing Scottish actor Gerard Butler.

Ricky Gervais has managed to snag a Hollywood star for his big-screen directorial debut - award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes has signed on to star in 'Cemetery Junction'.

A director has distanced herself from comments about supporting the IRA made by an actress who stars in her latest film.

Hollywood actress Rosie McGowan - star of the TV series 'Charmed' - hasn't made many friends in the North after telling a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival that had she lived in Belfast, she would have joined the IRA.

Charlize Theron went public with her unorthodox 'marriage' to partner Stuart Townsend over the weekend when she referred to the Irishman as her "husband" in a TV interview.

Director Ang Lee has triumphed at the Venice Film Festival - by winning the event's top award for the second time in two years.

Maverick director Quentin Tarantino will step in front of the camera to star in a 12th century spaghetti western being made by Japanese cult filmmaker Takashi Miike.

Birthday boy Marc Anthony and his wife Jennifer Lopez are celebrating after their Hectare Lavoe biopic became the subject of the biggest deal at this year's Toronto Film Festival in Canada late on Friday.

Actor Sean Penn has escaped charges for breaking an anti-smoking ban in Canada, while the hotel he lit up in has been slapped with a fine.

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt was thrilled with his role in new film Babel - because for once he wasn't the sole focus of the movie.